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Wildfires in Nyanga

Province of Gabon

Wildfires in Nyanga

Detected · VIIRS 375 m · Suomi NPP, NOAA-20, NOAA-21 · last 24 hours · updated 2026-10-11 08:31 UTC

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Fire history, 2012–2025

Detected · VIIRS S-NPP 375 m · 0.01° cells (~1.1 km) · complete years 2012–2025 · built 2026-09-23

Between 2012 and 2025, VIIRS detected fire in 5,720 km² of Nyanga at least once. In an average year it detected fire in 1,010 km², ranking 2nd of 9 regions of Gabon.

1,010 km²detected in an average year
2013busiest year, 1,410 km²
2014quietest year, 768 km²
Julypeak month, 30% of fire-days

Year by year

2012: 912 km2'122013: 1,410 km2'132014: 768 km2'142015: 913 km2'152016: 1,140 km2'162017: 989 km2'172018: 971 km2'182019: 1,070 km2'192020: 1,070 km2'202021: 794 km2'212022: 902 km2'222023: 1,060 km2'232024: 1,070 km2'242025: 1,110 km2'251,410 km2

Detected area per year, km². Area of 0.01° cells with at least one detection in the year.

The busiest year was 2013, with 1,410 km² detected; the quietest was 2014, with 768 km². The 2021–2025 average is within 5% of the 2012–2016 average.

Through the year

January: 1.0%JFebruary: 1.0%FMarch: 1.5%MApril: 2.3%AMay: 2.2%MJune: 11%JJuly: 30%JAugust: 30%ASeptember: 14%SOctober: 5.3%ONovember: 1.2%NDecember: 0.9%D30%

Share of all fire-days 2012–2025 by month. A fire-day is one cell with a detection on one day.

July, August and September together hold 74% of the fire-days in the record. The single busiest day was 13 September 2015, with detections in 84 cells.

Ground that burns again

Of the 5,720 km² with at least one detection, 41% had detections in three or more different years.

Years with a detectionkm²Share
1 year1,77031%
2 years1,58028%
3 to 5 years2,12037%
6 to 10 years2444.3%
11 years or more2.50.0%

The half-degree square with the most fire-days is centred at -3.25, 11.75 and holds 23% of the region's fire-days.

The figures

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YearDetected km²Fire-days
2012912797
20131,4101,283
2014768666
2015913787
20161,140999
2017989862
2018971858
20191,070961
20201,070958
2021794691
2022902819
20231,060942
20241,070947
20251,110977

Other regions of Gabon

Detected area counts every 0.01° cell with at least one VIIRS detection, so a small fire counts as a whole cell and a fire missed by cloud or between passes is absent. Borders: Natural Earth 1:10m. 2012 begins on 20 January.

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